The Crisis Quotes

#1. Evangelicals have been distinctive in featuring the crisis conversion. But what is essential to Christianity is the whole life committed to God, from the beginning of faith until death.

Mark A. Noll

#2. The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

Daniel Pauly

#3. The way some German politicians have lashed out at Greece when the country fell into the crisis has left deep wounds there. I was just as shocked by the banners of protesters in Athens that showed the German chancellor in a Nazi uniform.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#4. The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

James Tobin

#5. Our goals and what we hope to achieve by moving to food assistance is even in supporting the crisis needs of the most vulnerable people, we provide them with the capacity to be more resilient to the next shock.

Ertharin Cousin

#6. As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

Joni Ernst

#7. Stability leads to instability. The more stable things become and the longer things are stable, the more unstable they will be when the crisis hits.

Hyman Minsky

#8. The economic crisis, so conveniently operated and driven by the markets, by financial groups, by the needs of a globalized economy, faces the task of restoring social control, which the crisis of modernity lost sight of.

Zygmunt Bauman

#9. Isn't the crisis over?" "We're Shadowhunters," Jace said. "You'll find that the crisis is never over.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil.

George Soros

#11. In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.

Tariq Ali

#12. Strange how, as long as the hardship lasts, we can stand it. As soon as the crisis is over, the strength all leeches away in an instant.

Joe Abercrombie

#13. The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#14. Making heroes out of celebrity CEOs is at the heart of the crisis in corporate leadership.

Bill George

#15. The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

Whittaker Chambers

#16. It is easier to invest for cash flow during a financial crisis. So don't waste a good crisis by hiding your head in the sand. The longer the crisis lasts, the richer some people will become.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. What's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

Stephanie Coontz

#18. When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Mary Hunter Austin

#19. Most people assume the War on Drugs was launched in response to the crisis caused by crack cocaine in inner-city neighborhoods.

Michelle Alexander

#20. The crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves.

Ray Bradbury

#21. Confidence can be the first pillar of defense in any situation. If one has confidence, it does not matter what crisis you face. You will overcome or at least minimize the impact of the crisis.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

#22. ...Laying blame for the global financial crisis on any single individual, let alone on an eighty-three year old man, seems as ethically flawed as some of the broader moral failures permeating society in the lead-up to the crisis.

Jeremy Balkin

#23. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#24. That insight, that God is to be found not in the crisis but in our response to the crisis, is the key to understanding one of the most important passages in the entire Bible.

Harold S. Kushner

#25. So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Norman Mailer

#26. Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.

Marc Faber

#27. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention. Until now there had been every urgent reason to obliterate any attention that might otherwise have been paid, banish the thought, bring fresh adrenaline to bear on the crisis of the day.

Joan Didion

#28. Losing your head in a crisis is a good way to become the crisis.

C.J. Redwine

#29. No one really appreciated how much of security work was just trying to keep things under control for a few more minutes, giving everyone involved in the crisis a little time to think it all through.

James S.A. Corey

#30. If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

George Ayittey

#31. Thar is two things that every national crisis is bound to show up: first, a lot o' dum fools in command; second, lot o great commanders in the ranks. An' fortunately before the crisis is over the hull thing is sure set right, and the men is where they oughter be.

Ernest Thompson Seton

#32. The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state
this is a rainbow state.

Jesse Jackson

#33. Evidently some misguided rustic had herded diarrhetic cattle through the place and the management had yet to come to terms with the crisis.

Anonymous

#34. This is real. This is not a phase. This is not a temper tantrum. The average American who I believe makes this country work thinks the Republican Party is actually oriented against its interests and does not understand or believe the crisis they think the country's in.

Rush Limbaugh

#35. You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

Michael Lewis

#36. In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.

Satish Kumar

#37. The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

Manning Marable

#38. The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of] this global warming pollution reaches such toxic levels that the problem becomes bigger than we can solve.

Al Gore

#39. The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#40. The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

Antonio Gramsci

#41. We - mankind - stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device - our consciousness of the crisis - as our unique contribution.

Margaret Mead

#42. What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.

G. Campbell Morgan

#43. The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway.

George Washington

#44. I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Stanislav Grof

#45. You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

Amy Bloom

#46. The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.

Mike Mansfield

#47. With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

#48. It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Alice Duer Miller

#49. People will believe the crisis is over because they want to believe their world is safe.

Joelle Charbonneau

#50. In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Robert Casey

#51. I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.

Billy Tauzin

#52. We warned when the crisis began in 2011 that unless it was resolved quickly, the country [Syria] would be destroyed. Unfortunately, our warnings are coming true.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#53. I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

Alcee Hastings

#54. Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Chin-Ning Chu

#55. The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to becoming active partners throughout the educational process.

Adam Fletcher

#56. The crisis isn't over. The prospect of nuclear war has never been greater. The United States is so close to invading Cuba that one bad joke in the nonstop series of ExComm meetings is that Bobby Kennedy will soon be mayor of Havana.

Bill O'Reilly

#57. Some of us get played out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way, and we say - "I will wait till I get nearer the big crisis." If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we shall do nothing in the crisis.

Oswald Chambers

#58. To end the crisis [of gun violence], we have to regulate -or, in the case of handguns and assault weapons, completely ban -the product. We are far past the [point] where registration, licensing, safety training, background checks, or waiting periods will have much effect on firearms violence.

Josh Sugarmann

#59. Today the biggest problem in caring for those with AIDS is no longer mainly a medical or scientific problem. The crisis is access to affordable drugs.

Bernie Sanders

#60. I believe the crisis started when we started prioritizing redistribution of wealth instead of its creation.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#61. No man has ever gone through the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure.

Oswald Chambers

#62. I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

David Axelrod

#63. Without constant practice, the officers will be nervous and undecided when mustering for battle; without constant practice, the general will be wavering and irresolute when the crisis is at hand.]

Sun Tzu

#64. Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.

Jack Nicklaus

#65. We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.

The Invisible Committee

#66. In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

Kofi Annan

#67. Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories ... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

Mark Zuckerberg

#68. Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.

Alex Berenson

#69. Naturally, people - especially in America - live in the moment and, given the "crisis" orientation of cable news, think that [the 2000s are] the worst period the country has ever gone through. Not really.

Ivan Eland

#70. The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

Marianne Williamson

#71. Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis following disclosure.

Janis Tyler Johnson

#72. I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!

Jean-Louis Murat

#73. The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.

Ernest Becker

#74. The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia,

Marine Le Pen

#75. The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

H.G.Wells

#76. In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Derek Ibbotson

#77. The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

Noam Chomsky

#78. I learned that victims come in all image - some raped, some witnessing an act of violence, some losing loved ones. I learned that the solutions come by both listening to the people impacted by the crisis and by learning from historical experiences in other places.

Zainab Salbi

#79. Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way a nation thinks, you have to have the ability to take the crisis of the moment and use it to shape an agenda.

Pete Du Pont

#80. Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

K.P. Yohannan

#81. In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

Ban Ki-moon

#82. The crisis will reveal whether we have been practicing or not.

Oswald Chambers

#83. A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Quintus Ennius

#84. The first question to be answered by any individual or any social group, facing a hazardous situation, is whether the crisis is to be met as a challenge to strength or as an occasion for despair.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#85. If the world could predict who the villains and heroes were going to be, the crisis wouldn't exist in the first place." They

Deirdre Gould

#86. Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system ... Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti said.

Michael Lewis

#87. The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution

Arundhati Roy

#88. The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#89. We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

Karen Mills

#90. Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena.

Noam Chomsky

#91. Pouring arms into the spreading cauldron of war risks exacerbating the crisis in Iraq. A fully inclusive international diplomatic process should be attempted and is urgently needed now, before the fires of war and militancy spread further in the region.

David Cortright

#92. Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

#93. this very act of consenting to its loss of control is itself the critical event of all crisis. To give up ones stature as the director of ones own existance: this is, for us, the ultimate death, the crisis that undermines our being in the most radical way.

Jerome A. Miller

#94. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

Rashid Johnson

#95. As a result, ways out of the crisis are being intensively searched for at all levels - ways, which, however, aim at maintaining the whites' control over the country.

Joe Slovo

#96. Alternative to planning on late is to initiate before it's required, to ship before deadline, to put the idea out there before the crisis hits. This act of bravery actually gives you influence, leverage, and control in a way that planning on late never can. Dandelion

Seth Godin

#97. The crisis prompted the issue of emergency paper money: in Britain, £1 and 10s Treasury notes; in the United States, the emergency currency that banks were authorized to issue under the Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908.46 Then, as now, the authorities reacted to a liquidity crisis by printing money.

Niall Ferguson

#98. The truer measure of sacrifice isn't so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn't tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn't create one's characterit reveals it.

Lynn G. Robbins

#99. During the 1960s, large groups of people who are normally passive and apathetic began to try to enter the political arena to press their demands.? The naive might call that democracy, but that's because they don't understand. The sophisticated understand that that's the crisis of democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#100. The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.

Bell Hooks